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Subject: Re: bandwidth usage
In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19970615195726.007e35a0@jcwells.deskmail.washington.edu> from Jason Wells at "Jun 15, 97 07:57:26 pm"
To: jcwells@u.washington.edu (Jason Wells)
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 1997 15:26:57 +0100 (BST)
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> At 19:45 14-06-97 -0700, Jesse wrote:
> >I was wondering if anyone knew a simple method or program to determine how
> >much data is being sent/received through my ethernet port (just coming
> >from my machine, or going to my machine, not other machines on the
> >ethernet). preferrably a live display that can show me how many k/sec are
> >being transferred.
> 
> I believe that netstat in certain incarnations may do this also. It does
> not have a neat graphic display but it can make a tabular output to your
> display every few seconds. I think -rsi -c 'interval' is what you might
> need. See 'man netstat' for the specific command line options. 
> 

If you want a graphical display, xperfmon++ sort of does it - it's not
actually k/sec transferred, but number of packets sent and received.